Improvement in carriage-windows



CHARLES M. OBLENIS. Improvement in Carriage-Windows.

Patented May 9;]871.

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Letters Patent No. 114,592, dated May 9, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARRIAGE-WINDOWS;

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom it may cancer-n Be it known that I, CHARLES M. OBLENIS, ofthe city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Carriages; and I do hereby declare that the following-isa full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable othersskilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing forming part of this specification.

M This invention relates to improvements in carriages,

more especially of that kind known as calashes, which open at the top soas not to afford a support for the usual high doors in whichvertically-sliding glasses are arranged, but the invention isapplicablealso in some measure to other carriages and to street-cars.

The said invention consists in the application to the short doors of theabove-named carriages of vertically-sliding glasses and supportingdevices therefor of a novel character, for supporting the window in anelevated position when the two'parts of the 'top' are raised andconnected at the top, all as hereinafter specified.

Figure l is a front elevation of a door constructed according to myimprovement, and

Figure 2 is a sectional elevation of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding A lashes, landaus,landaulettes, and other like carriages,

which doors are only ashigh as the top of the box sides of the carriage,which are usually the same in height as about half of the ordinary door,and do' not therefore afford any means of supporting glass lights whenthe cloth' tops are raised and connected.

Now, I propose to make these doors with hollow spaces B between theoutside A and the inside, as in otherdoors, having lights for raising upto be supported in the open upper part of the door, and I also fit aglass light, E, together with a sash, F, therefor,

in the said hollow space to slide up and down; and I L, in the guideprojects, 'by which to raise the guides by the raising of the sash.

The grooves are to allowthe sash to rise as far, before lifting theguides, as it is to extend above the guides when both are lifted, and tolet the, sash fall after the guides have been arrested at the bottom, ofthe cavity B.

For holding these guides up, and also the sash, I provide a cover, M,for falling down upon the top of the door over the space through whichthe sash is lifted, and under the projections Non the guides.

This cover is hinged to the top of the door, and is to he provided witha spring for throwing it down as soon' as the sash and the projection Nhave risen above it.

When they are down this cover closes over the space, shutting the sashand guides out of view, and making a neat finish upon the top of thedoor.

In addition to' this cover, which must of necessity be short enough tofall between the guides K, I pro- .vide other short covers O,-to closedown over. the

guides when let fall.

This cover which falls down over the top of the sash may be used instreet-cars, omnibnses, and the like, to hold the sash up, instead ofshifting the lower edges of the sash backward over the seat, as nowprovided for them, by which the space from which the sash is raised isleft uncovered, whereby they present an unsightly appearance, and theybecome receptacles for small articles inadvertently dropped over them,especially by children.

I propose, therefore, to employ these covers in con- I nection with thesash and the doors or windows of such carriages as may have permanentguides and supports for the sash, as well as 'in connection with thesame and the vertically-ad j u'stable guides and supports K, as hereshown.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. Thecombination of the vertically-adjustable guides and supports K, and thecover M or M O, with i the sash and the door, substantially asspecified.

2. The combination, with the sash'and a door or window-frame havingpermanent guides and supports for the sash, of the cover M or M O,substantially as Atnx. F. ROBERTS.

